MANCHESTER, Conn. (WTNH) — Three people face charges after a fight broke out at a hookah lounge in Manchester.
Officers responded to the Empire Hookah Lounge on Broad Street just before 3 a.m. Saturday for the report of an active fight.
Before arriving at the scene, officers were told that four people involved in the incident got into a car, and one showed a show as they took off. The first officer at the scene found the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop.

Police arrested Richard Ortiz, 23, and Wesley Vazquez-Santana, 31, both from Meriden. Police said both were found illegally in possession of a gun, and two handguns were recovered.
A third person, 22-year-old Desmond Davis, was arrested on an active arrest warrant out of Newington for disorderly conduct, assault, and violation of a protective order for a July 2022 incident. He was also arrested on a warrant out of New Britain Superior Court on a charge of failure to appear.
Ortiz faces multiple charges, including breach of peace, reckless endangerment, threatening, criminal possession of a firearm, and illegal possessing a large-capacity magazine. He is being held on a $250,000 bond and is due in court on Monday.
Vasquez-Santana also faces multiple charges, including breach of peace, criminal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of a large-capacity magazine, and possession of a controlled substance. He’s being held on a $100,000 bond and is also due in court on Monday.
Booking photos of Ortiz and Vasquez-Santana were not immediately available.